Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3666

Name

Syntrophus Mountfort et al. 1984

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Syntrophaceae Kuever et al. 2006

Members

species	Syntrophus buswellii Mountfort et al. 1984
species	Syntrophus aciditrophicus Jackson et al. 2015
species	Syntrophus gentianae Wallrabenstein et al. 1996

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Syntrophia Waite et al. 2020
order Syntrophales Waite et al. 2020
family Syntrophaceae Kuever et al. 2006
genus Syntrophus Mountfort et al. 1984

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Syntrophus Mountfort et al. 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3666.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3666.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 3, 2020.

References

Jackson BE, Bhupathiraju VK, Tanner RS, Woese CR, McInerney MJ. Syntrophus aciditrophicus sp. nov., a new anaerobic bacterium that degrades fatty acids and benzoate in syntrophic association with hydrogen-using microorganisms. Arch Microbiol 1999; 171:107-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050685 [PubMed].
Wallrabenstein C, Gorny N, Springer N, Ludwig W, Schink B. Pure culture of Syntrophus buswellii, definition of its phylogenetic status, and description of Syntrophus gentianae sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 1996; 18:62-66.
Kuever J, Schink B. Genus I. Syntrophus gen. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1033.
Mountfort DO, Brulla WJ, Krumholz LR, Bryant MP. Syntrophus buswellii gen. nov., sp. nov.: a benzoate catabolizer from methanogenic ecosystems. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:216-217. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-34-2-216.